Riverbank

Title: Riverbank
Description: During the chaotic years following the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907, centralized rule was shattered and China splintered into a number of short-lived kingdoms. Among the most important of these was the Southern Tang dynasty (937–75), which governed much of the lower Yangzi River delta from its capital at Nanjing. It was there that a distinctive “southern” style of landscape painting developed under the court official and artist Dong Yuan.
Identifier: Painting, Chinese
Creator: Attributed to Dong Yuan (Chinese, active 930s–960s)
Date: Southern Tang dynasty (937–76)
Medium: hanging scrolls; Chinese silk; Chinese ink; color (pigment)
Subject: Landscapes
Type: Painting
Format: Image: 86 3/4 × 43 in. (220.3 × 109.2 cm); Overall with mounting: 11 ft. 1/2 in. × 48 in. (336.6 × 121.9 cm); Overall with knobs: 11 ft. 1/2 in. × 53 in. (336.6 × 134.6 cm)
Language: Chinese (traditional) (language)
Rights Holder: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Contributor: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, in memory of Douglas Dillon, 2016